LSS: The kernel hardening roundtable

Posted Sep 20, 2011 8:41 UTC (Tue) by kragilkragil2 (guest, #76172)
Parent article: LSS: The kernel hardening roundtable

Great article.
I was wondering the GRSecurity/PAX stuff has been around for ages. What are the reasons some of the good parts didn't end up in the kernel? Are the devs(on both sides) hard to work with? Did it take kernel.org and linux.com to go down to open maintainers eyes for security? Did everybody think complex stuff like SELinux would be the sufficient?

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LSS: The kernel hardening roundtable

Posted Sep 21, 2011 11:35 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Are the devs(on both sides) hard to work with?

Is the sun hot?

The kernel developers do not get on very well with pseudonymous developers who believe they already know everything and whose response to any criticisms or suggestions at all is imputations of malice. Actually, the latter is sufficient: see the kernel list's stellar record of cooperation with Joerg Schilling. (Or, for that matter, anyone at all's record of cooperation with Joerg Schilling.)